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No, the beta expiration notice seem to be preventing the phone from letting the PC connect. The first time I connected the phone to pc, windows downloaded and installed the drivers. You even hear the connection sound everytime you connect and disconnect the usb. It doesn't look like the beta message lets active sync connect to WMDC. I wanted to try to bypass this step then by going directly into bootloader mode and flash.

Hard reset didn't work either.

Thanks for your help so far!